Hi lempkee, Wilse, and others,
Just a few comments in respose...
1. We have seen the Voodoo3 running 3D on the Pegasos already. Mark Olsen is doing that work and he is close to a release. It is coming.
2. We know that getting anywhere in the future means getting to tomorrow. In other words, 300 is a number on the way to 1000. We know we can go no further on the hardware side for the moment so we are focused on trying to pull together applications in the meanwhile. This is really just a indication of more subtle organizational changes.
3. What are those changes? Here are a couple of examples: a) a new office for bplan in Frankfurt, b) a new QA team based in Paris with specific objectives and direction, c) a detailed CVS/source management program not only for MorphOS, but for all the other OS distros we seek to support on the platform, and d) a completely reorganized web presence with an order management center based in Luxembourg. PriceWaterhouseCoopers set up our corporate structure -- now we have to implement the plan. ;-)
4. Getting Phoenix integrated into the process while respecting its independence and creativity.
We could go on, but you get the idea. These plans and MUCH more are underway.
We had 162 emails when we came home last night after a LONG day. Granted some of those were junk, but many of those emails were writen by new Pegasos users seeking solutions for one challenge or another. As the daily scoll forward continues we see one answer and then another in response. Ultimately, we see a continuous dialogue that moves to a solution. People in Australia, Canada, or Italy getting answers from Pegasos owners in Norway, Germany or Spain ... That is the whole idea of a Community and it is taking shape -- step by step. This spirit and interaction needs to be in place and we need to have a corporate organization structure working too if we want to start adding digits successfully to our installed base. The process is in play and it is starting to produce very encouraging results.
As Daniel Miller has often suggested in his encouragement of our efforts to get hardware and software out EVEN if it is not perfect and into the hands of users: innovation and creativity factor will spark NEW developments. We see it. It is working -- again day by day, one user at a time. :-)
Anyway, thanks for the encouragement mips, gary_c, Wayne, Paul, -D-, Wilse, KennyR, and lempkee. We are off for another busy day...;-)
...and a BIG thanks to greenboy and Phoenix!
Raquel and Bill :-)
